(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))
DUBAI, 13th December, 2017 (WAM) -- The Nabadat charity initiative to treat children with heart deformities, which was launched in October 2007, has treated more than 875 children of various nationalities, including open-heart surgery and therapeutic catheterisation surgery, and has diagnosed more than 5,000 patients, both, inside and outside the country.
Ibrahim Bou Melha, Advisor to His Highness the ruler of Dubai for Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment, highlighted the importance of the Nabada initiative, which is a charity, humanitarian, medical and training project launched by the city of Dubai, and a campaign to treat children with heart deformities and diseases, under the patronage of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives.
The initiative is the result of the co-operation between the establishment and the Dubai Health Authority, DHA, he added.
Bou Melha also highlighted the initiative's efforts to treat of the largest possible number of children, both inside and outside the country and around the world, with the aim of saving the lives of patients with heart deformities and easing the economic, social and psychological burden on them and their families, in light of the rising cost of performing heart surgeries.
He explained that the establishment is covering the cost of external campaigns in friendly countries for all members of both the medical and administrative teams, as well as providing the necessary operations and logistics support, to ensure the success of its team's mission to treat the largest possible number of children while the DHA is responsible for choosing the members of the medical team and supervising surgeries.
Bou Melha further highlighted the initiative's plan for 2018, which includes organising many internal and external campaigns in 10 Arab and non-Arab countries.
Dr. Obaid Mohammed Al Jassim, Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Dubai Hospital and Head of the Nabadat Team, highlighted the importance of the initiative's humanitarian role, overseen by both the DHA and the establishment, to provide free treatment for children with heart deformities from various nationalities, easing the financial, psychological and social burden on their families, organising medical and educational programmes, transferring and nationalising relevant international expertise in the authority's hospital, and providing and equipping the cardiology departments of developing countries with the necessary medical equipment and supplies to perform heart surgeries.
The initiative has currently organised 22 internal treatment campaigns and eight external campaigns that have benefitted 350 Emirati children, with 40 percent of the total number of patients, or 525 resident children of various nationalities, being between the ages of one week and 18 years.
WAM/Tariq alfaham/Hassan Bashir
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